.NET Framework Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft .NET Framework
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring .NET Framework skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 122 110
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +39
Contract jobs citing .NET Framework 2 17 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.10% 0.67% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% 3.92% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 30
10th Percentile - £331 £450
25th Percentile £313 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% -10.42% +4.44%
75th Percentile £438 £675 £688
90th Percentile - - £716
England median daily rate £470 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -12.56% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £67.00
25th Percentile - £75.00 -
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.06%
75th Percentile - £86.25 -
90th Percentile - £88.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -16.25% +14.29% +11.91%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

.NET Framework falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 292 434 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.96% 17.11% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 237 417
10th Percentile £286 £353 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £652 £690 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £552
% change year-on-year -6.82% -0.32% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 51 40
10th Percentile £61.80 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £78.33
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.94% -9.86%

.NET Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing .NET Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for .NET Framework in the South West

.NET Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing .NET Framework

.NET Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Framework within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -4 1 £375 -42.31% 5
Dorset - 1 - - 2
.NET Framework
England

.NET Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Android Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker